Linux Gaming News Turns 3 Years Old !

Frankly I wasn’t sure LGN would get to this point, but after severaldomain and hostingchanges we survived 3 years today !
LGN tried to put a fewcontests over the years but unfortunately they failed.
Maybe I should setup something easier next time…
I’ve been very open regarding LGN and as with last time I’ll publish the stats for those who interested.
Despite all the visitors I have, I make ZERO $ on this website, and the hosting is generously provided for free by Linux Game Database (Thanks again Pheonton) – otherwise I’ve been forced to use the good old but limited wordpress.com 😉

Please note that those stats are only for the last year ( 2010-08-17 – 2011-08-15) as I’ve moved to a new host and domain (Linux Game Database) , so without farther delay, here are the stats :

The basic graph shows the visits over 13 months, as you see we had good months and bad months (after the company I worked for got bankrupted and I got fired, I wasn’t in the mood to post much so the visitors came much less, but I’ve found a new job now).

Here is the graph with more detail (and numbers) :

Overall LGN had 132,858 views this year, which is a 23,975 increase over last year !
The most popular page was as usual the “main LGN page”, then “Trine And Trine 2 Are Coming To GNU/Linux !” and the third place was “Unity GNU/Linux Exporter In Development !” – the forth and fifth pages were the “Upcoming GNU/Linux games !” and “Recently Released”.
This is a bug change as the last two pages were always visible and updated every few months, while the others were “regular” news articles.

Here are the top links people loved to click on when visiting LGNAs you can see the top clicked page was happypenguin.org and close second was the excellent freegamer.blogspot.com blog about free source games.
Our generous host lgdb.org came third.

Those are the websites I own big thanks for referring to LGN, and the biggest of them all was reddit.com which I begun to update with LGN’s new posts less then a year ago.
The wikipedia article “List_of_adult_video_games” is still bringing new visitors to LGN.
Also about 1-2 months ago there was a strange day in which I had many referrers from gayclubsociety.com website which is very strange because I’m straight and my website is about Linux Gaming – a friend of mine suggested that they misspelled it as “Linux GAYming” 😉
So thank you for redirecting to LGN !

The top search term was “linux gaming news” so people know what they looking for but always forget to add .org 😉
Many people were interested in Trine so “trine linux” came second and more general searches followed.

Top Search Terms 2010-08-17 – 2011-08-15

Search

Views

linux gaming news

1,936

trine linux

1,051

linux gaming

569

brink linux

514

linux game news

407

primal carnage

352

amnesia the dark descent

334

udk linux

300

gish

262

linux games 2011

241

spacechem linux

226

dungeons of dredmor linux

223

lgn linux

223

brink linux server

195

linuxgamingnews

193

chicken invaders ultimate omelette

171

trine for linux

170

garshasp linux

136

jmonkeyengine

126

magical diary horse hall

116

linux news

111

iron sky: operation highjump

109

chicken invaders: ultimate omelette

108

garshasp

105

drakensang online linux

103

jbliss

100

hon trial account

97

sci fi room

92

linux games news

87

jbliss linux

85

deathspank linux

81

hon trial

77

linux games

77

gaming on linux

76

upcoming linux games

74

starfarer

73

hon trial keys

71

magical diary

61

brink opengl

61

dungeons of dredmor

60

linux trine

58

planet stronghold

56

trine 2 linux

55

chicken invaders 4 ultimate omelette

54

heroes of newerth

54

cortex command

51

cortex command linux

47

maxi mini golf

46

amnesia linux

46

trine on linux

44

This is the time to say a HUGE THANK YOU to LGN’s biggest single news contributor Grzegorz Budny who continues to send me great news !
For his great support I bought him the GNU/Linux game of his choice – Runes of Avalon 2.

And off course THANK YOU ALL, the readers, the most important part of any website, without you LGN is useless – I hope you will keep enjoying the website as long as it exists

Congratulations! Thanks for searching and posting unique things on the net, I know how hard it is.

BTW:
s/Phantom/pheonton/
😉

Hamish Paul Wilson
August 19, 2011 8:12 am

Sorry that I missed this when you posted it Maxim, but I was stuck on the modem for the past week. Anyway, a happy belated birthday to LGN, and I am glad to see my work on Wikipedia has benefited you with some nice referrals. 😀

Maxim Bardin
August 19, 2011 8:17 am

Thanks, your wikipedia work has indeed boosted the referrals (you did the games for adults referrals ? aren’t you too young for that ? 😀 ).